Amid the mini-uproar over the "60 Minutes" piece on members of Congress and potential personal benefits involved, a sharp-eyed reader pointed me to this recent Atlantic piece that revisited a similar study from the mid-1990s.

One of the fixtures of that review - written up by Mother Jones at the time - was Newt Gingrich:

Representative Newt Gingrich (R–Georgia) bought Boeing stock just before he helped kill amendments that would have cut funding for the International Space Station—an outcome that helped Boeing secure a contract.

And yet, the Atlantic surmised, some of the details didn't quite add up:

And while Newt Gingrich may have helped save a program that eventually benefited Boeing, that happened before the contract had been awarded—and since Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, he could hardly count on being able to steer the Space Station business to Boeing.

The particulars of this instance may have been overwrought at the time. But it's a reminder that Gingrich's record is long, and the potential items to put under a microscope are many.